Dickens and Night


The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Presents “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens–a Theatre Review 


Kareem Bandealy as Jacob Marley and Larry Yando as Ebenezer Scrooge in Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Tom Creamer. Photo: Liz Lauren  This review is contributed by Mads Golding, a playwright, writer, and independent scholar who focuses on Charles Dickens...

Deep Impressions: Dickens’s Encounters with Houselessness


This post has been contributed by Dr. Trish Bredar, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on representations of physical mobility in British literature of the long nineteenth century, with particular interests in gender, walking,...

Enthralling Expectations: The Dark Dreamscape of Satis House


Contributed by Anne Nagel, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln doctoral student researching the affective intensity of sleep and dreams in nineteenth-century British literature. I challenge you to find a Dickens novel that fails to employ multiple dreams, an intense dreamlike state, or at the very least,...